Adult book picks: 'Hijacked by Your Brain'

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Published: Sunday, March 31, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 6:20 p.m.

“Hijacked by Your Brain: How to Free Yourself When Stress Takes Over” by Dr. Julian Ford and Jon Wortmann. What do you do when stress takes over your life, and nothing you do to feel better seems to work? This book is the first to explain how stress changes your brain and what you can do about it. In order to truly reduce stress, you have to understand why your brain causes you to feel stress and how you can take advantage of it to handle the high-stress people and situations in your life.

“The Book of Killowen: A Novel” by Erin Hart. After a year away from working in the field, archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a ninth-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. They discover that the ancient corpse is not alone.

“Middle C: A Novel” by William Gass. Graz, Austria, 1938. Joseph Skizzen's father, pretending to be Jewish, leaves his country for England with his wife and two children to avoid any connection with the Nazis, who he foresees will soon take over his homeland. In London with his family for the duration of the war, he disappears under mysterious circumstances.

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